UK LOCKSS Alliance Members'Meeting

10th May 2011

InstitutionalPerspectives: The London School of

EconomicsBill Barker and Lisa Cardy

Institutional Perspectives: The LSE

• Summary of sessiono Profile of the LSE and its ejournal resources and staffo the LSE and LOCKSS: past and presento What we’ve preserved so faro What’s still to be doneo What we’ve learnt about the UI

• Profileo We’re a specialist institutiono 40,000 ejournalso A mix of major and small/medium publisherso 2.5 million FT downloads in 2009-10o Tracked in SerialsSolutionso One Assistant Librarian managing the ejournals,

limited library assistant resourceso Subscribe to LOCKSS and Portico

Institutional Perspectives: The LSE

Institutional Perspectives: The LSE

• Pasto Associate member of the pilot, then subscriber to the

serviceo Intermittent input from us until recentlyo IT set backs

• Presento E-first policy as the drivero IT support and delegating AU ingest and selection to

library assistantso Ejournal preservation commitment

Institutional Perspectives: The LSE

• What we’ve achieved so faro VFM: LOCKSS fee is a fraction of total cost of our

current preserved contento Preserved so far in our LOCKSS box

o75% of our Emerald tracked titles (£18k)o48% of our Sage tracked titles (£90k)o80% of our OUP tracked titles (£25k)o90% of our Springer tracked titles (£60k)

o Supporting and driving the LSE Library’s e-first policy

Institutional Perspectives: The LSE

• To doo Integrate our LOCKSS box with our link resolvero Automate serving content and simulate a trigger evento Make qualitative and detailed quantitative statements

about the extent of our LOCKSS content (PEPRS)o Preserve more than ejournals